Tom retired from the U.S. Army some years ago after twenty years of service and began writing as a hobby. During his military service, as a Senior Noncommissioned Officer, they required him to take a DOD course for military-style writing. It was valuable training and planted a seed toward Tom’s dream of becoming a writer.
Tom joined an online group called The Write Practice, thewritepractice.com. There he learned and continued to improve his writing of short stories and longer works. The community in the forum there has helped him learn and grow.
Literally Stories published one of Tom’s short stories, The Hiring of May Witherspoon on, March 26, 2018. Literally Stories also published another short work, The Great God Cernunnos on, May 7, 2018.
The Momaya Annual Review, printed in 2018, included a short story about coming of age. It concerned an adolescent boy facing down his overbearing father, called, Peyton Got His Gun.
Another of Tom’s short stories, Do-Over, received Honorable Mention in the Atlantis Short Story contest in 2018.
